Unique and uplifting show puts death centre stage

Louise White’s father died five years ago when he was in his 80s. His demise, understandably, had a profound impact on his family, including his daughter Louise, who works in the performing arts. She has since explored his death – and death generally – in This is The Funeral of Your Life, a thought-provoking exploration about the challenges of living and dying.

This fusion of drama, music and dance had its premiere in Dublin in 2017, when The Irish Times praised it as “an unexpectedly funny and uplifting play about your own death”.

It’s now been revived for a nationwide tour which will kick off in Galway’s Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday, February 5.